Won't happen for me. And most of the folks in the business that I know. It will drive users to other products. There are some good GNU products and they will probably thrive after this. I will use my CS5 until the computer crashes and have to replace it. At that time, I will move to the myriad of other products. If you do a google search you find that the online and smartphone crown dominates. Keep your original disks. I have Photoshop 7 (ancient) and it will work if needed.
--- In [email protected], Gregg Eshelman <g_alan_e@...> wrote: > > Sounds a lot like Microsoft's plan where you can pay monthly for an XBox 360 > and XBox live service. In a year you've spent more than just buying the XBox. > > 'Course the Adobe plan does provide access to all Adobe software, but to make > it worth it you'd need to use several of the products quite often. > > Another issue is what about upgrading? If Adobe changes a file format or > alters or removes some feature or function that you've come to depend on, > you're SOL? Sorry, we've updated your subscription and you have to use the > latest release, like it or not? > > I've never been a fan of "cloud" services, which have existed long before > someone thought up that stupid name. At any time it can be shut down or go > away for any number of reasons. Company goes bankrupt or gets bought and the > new owner "decides to take the company in a different direction" or the > company just decides to quit the whole "cloud" thing. > > I lost a website when the ISP I was with was bought out and shut down without > warning, the day before Thanksgiving. This was circa 1998 or 1999. One day > *poof*, no access, nothing. Found out the new owners had come in the middle > of the night, packed up all the servers and everything else and left one guy > with one phone to field a few thousand phone calls. > > A perfect example of the "We're tired of this shiznit" version is when > Microsoft shut down Live for the original XBox and original XBox games on the > 360, on April 15, 2010. Such a nice day too, Tax Day in the USA. > > Another classic example is Circuit City's Divx no-return encrypted DVD > rentals. Pay a low price for the movie then pay the vendor for every day you > want to watch it. Pay a larger fee for unlimited viewing (Silver plan) but > only on one player. The "Gold" option to unlock a disc for unlimited play on > any Divx player was never implemented, nor was the option to command all the > players to permanently unlock for all the discs. Instead, when the market > shunned the Divx scheme, Circuit city just shut down the authentication > server, turning all the Divx discs into permanently useless trash, except for > the ones people paid retail prices for the privilege of being able to use > only on a single device. > > Pay once, use forever, all data stored locally is more secure and nothing the > company does or what happens to the company can affect your use of the > product. Remember Chuck Woolery's tagline from the early years of Wheel of > Fortune "You bought that, it's yours to keep.". > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
